% This file should contain acknowledgements for people who have helped
% out the SIPB in various ways.   I don't know about the early days,
% but we need to include Jim Bruce, for the budget, Athena, for our
% office workstations (include people's names, such as Steve Lerman & Earll
% Murman). Probably Roger Roach too (check with Ken).  Finboard, if we
% ever got money out of them for publications.  Maybe even the high
% mucky-mucks, such as Gray and company.

\section{Acknowledgments}
The activities of the Student Information Processing Board have been
aided by many members of the MIT community.

We would like to thank staff members of Information Systems,
especially Mr.\ Robert Burke and the User Accounts staff, Ms.\ Cecilia
D'Oliveira, Mr.\ Ron Hoffmann, Mr.\ Lou Isgur, Mr.\ Roger Roach, and DEC
field service personnel.

We would like also to thank the sponsors of Project Athena for greatly
improving student access to computing, and the Athena staff, especially
Professors Steve Lerman, Earl Murman, and Jerry Saltzer, and Mr.\ Peter
Roden for providing hardware and resources.

We would like also to thank the Finance Board of MIT's Undergraduate
Association for their support of our early publishing efforts.

We would like to thank Ms.\ Kathy Allen, for her patience while helping
us deal with the subtleties of MIT accounting and purchasing.

Finally, on behalf of the MIT community, we would like to thank Prof.\ 
Fernando Corbato, the former Director of Computer and
Telecommunications Resources, Jerry Wilson, Former Dean of Engineering,
and Prof.\ James Bruce, Vice President of Information Systems, for
their support of independent student computer use at MIT.